Were you looking forward to whoring the hell out of your respective awards system for whatever console you got Assassin’s Creed II with when The Battle of Forli releases tomorrow? Too bad: the DLC won’t be getting any new awards added for either PS3 or 360.

If you were hoping that the newly-announced Assassin’s Creed game, to release in the coming Ubi fiscal year, is a completely new banana with a new setting, think again: it’s more Ezio, and it’s more of the same story.

Ubi’s put flesh on the bones of its recently announced Assassin’s Creed II DLC, giving both upcoming bits of content details and pricing. The Battle of Forli will hit late January for $3.99. It’ll feature Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza fighting alongside Ezio to defend against the Orsi brothers. It features six new memories, including one […]

The first patch for Assassin’s Creed II has been announced over on the Ubisoft forums, and it will fix that pesky Hideout glitch that was revealed last week. Slated to be released today on PS3 and December 11 on Xbox 360, the patch also includes some other fixes such as fast travel, getting stuck under […]

The opening sections of Assassin’s Creed II may have benefited from more action, scriptwriter Corey May’s admitted, and given the luxury of reworking the game’s early hours he’d be looking to beef them up. “If I could do it again I’d try and ‘sharpen’ it but I wouldn’t cut it,” said May, talking to VG247 […]

Assassin’s Creed II isn’t only holding its own in the year’s hottest charts, but has managed to secure itself a Game of the Year nomination at the VGAs this week and a stable MC rating of 91 percent. If you’ve been playing these last few weeks, you’ll know the plaudits are well deserved. The original’s […]